Child abuse in Britain

Global warming concerns are keeping children awake at night

Half of young children are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern, according to a new report today.

A survey of 1,150 youngsters aged between seven and 11 found that one in four blamed politicians for the problems of climate change.

I would love to see the actual questions in this survey.

Are you doing enough?

Of course you aren’t.

One in seven of those questioned by supermarket giant Somerfield said their own parents were not doing enough to improve the environment.

The most feared consequences of global warming included poor health, the possible submergence of entire countries and the welfare of animals.

Most of those polled understood the benefits of recycling, although one in 10 thought the issue was linked to riding a bike.

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Pete Williams, of Somerfield, said: "Concerns over our environment dominate the media at present and kids are exposed to the hard facts as much as anybody.

[choke] Hard facts ?? HARD FACTS????????? SHOW ME THE FACTS!!!

"While many adults may look the other way, this study should show that global warming is not only hurting the children of the future, it's affecting the welfare of kids now.

No, YOU’RE hurting their welfare now by scaring them about nothing.

"By raising awareness amongst today's young, hopefully we are improving our chances of reaching a solution.''

Translation: “By frightening kids and thus bothering their parents, we’ll be able to justify more taxes and less personal freedom now”

The study marked Somerfield's drive to reduce the eight billion plastic bags wasted by UK households every year.

And exactly what does that have to do with climate change?

If an older sibling or uncle was terrifying your child with monster stories to the point where the child couldn’t sleep, what would you do? In my house, at least, the uncle would be persona non grata until he stopped and at least tried to undo the damage by admitting that he made it all up. An older sibling would do all that plus face some additional punishment for being a jerk. All this “global warming” hype is just a monster story told by jerks to frighten the weak minded. All these so-called “consequences” of climate change are mere fantasies generated by computer models and publicized by grant-hungry “scientists” (and power hungry politicians). Why are these people allowed to get away with this? And why do they think it’s acceptable to target children? I know, I know, to get at their parents. Can you imagine Winston Churchill, back when nobody believed him about the threat from the Nazis, starting a campaign to tell Britain’s children that Hitler was going to come over and kill them all in their sleep? That would have got their parents on board with the war, right? Of course not; it probably would have ended his political career, and yet the Nazi threat was real and imminent in the 1930s. People (Nazis and other bad guys) were responsible for the situation then, and people (the Allies) had to fix it. Global climate change is not caused by people and there is nothing people can do to “fix” it. So STOP the scare stories already.